Two: Space Port America

Spaceport America is the world's first purpose-built commercial Spaceport. Located near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Spaceport America is owned by the State of New Mexico and shares the restricted airspace with its neighbour White Sands Missile Range. It has been designed to support horizontal launch operations like WhiteKnightTwo. The runway is 61 meters or 200 feet wide by 3048 meters or 10,000 feet long and at 42' thick with a 14" concrete finish surface it can accommodate almost any manned or unmanned aircraft in the world.
North Face of the Hanger as of 09 September 2011 Space Operations Center and the Terminal Hanger Facility as of 26 August 2011

 North Face of the Hanger as of 09 September 2011

Space Operations Center and the Terminal Hanger Facility as of 26 August 2011

 
 
Terminal Hangar Facility Terminal Hangar Facility South side of the Terminal Hangar

 Terminal Hangar Facility

Inside the Terminal Hangar

South side of the Terminal Hangar

  

 

Spaceport America Runway dedication. Photo by Jeffrey Vock

 

Tina attending Spaceport America forum October 2010

 

 

 

 

 


 

Spaceport America’s Runway Dedication Event was held on the 22nd of October with WhiteKnightTwo, with SpaceShipTwo captive, doing several fly-bys including low passes before actually landing on the Spaceport America runway.

 

 

Conceptual designs of Spaceport America